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On the heels of yesterdays’ announced layoff of 192 employees at the Union-Tribune, society writer Burl Stiff, who has covered the doings of San Diego’s upper crust for the paper since 1976, says he is departing the U-T on June 4. “I have always worked on a contract,” he told us in a telephone interview this morning. “I’m of retirement age, but I’m not sure what I will do now.” He said that he may continue his writing career in some forum, but it probably won’t include the Internet. “I’m pretty much of a Luddite.” Stiff, 81, said he hadn’t talked to ex-U-T publisher David Copley, a close friend, since the U-T takeover by Beverly Hills-based Platinum Equity this week so he didn't know how Copley was coping with his new status as an ex-publisher. “I just got back from New York.” He added he has enough money to retiree on, “provided there isn’t a stock market cataclysm.”
On the heels of yesterdays’ announced layoff of 192 employees at the Union-Tribune, society writer Burl Stiff, who has covered the doings of San Diego’s upper crust for the paper since 1976, says he is departing the U-T on June 4. “I have always worked on a contract,” he told us in a telephone interview this morning. “I’m of retirement age, but I’m not sure what I will do now.” He said that he may continue his writing career in some forum, but it probably won’t include the Internet. “I’m pretty much of a Luddite.” Stiff, 81, said he hadn’t talked to ex-U-T publisher David Copley, a close friend, since the U-T takeover by Beverly Hills-based Platinum Equity this week so he didn't know how Copley was coping with his new status as an ex-publisher. “I just got back from New York.” He added he has enough money to retiree on, “provided there isn’t a stock market cataclysm.”